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Accenture’s Big AI Shift: Tough Cuts Now, Brighter Future Ahead
ByJorge Pereira 2025-09-302025-09-30

The announcement of Accenture’s layoffs of over 11,000 employees was made public on September 28, 2025. This move is part of a strategic AI-focused restructuring program aimed at aligning the workforce with the company’s AI-driven future. CEO Julie Sweet outlined the plan during an earnings call CNBC, 2025-09-26. Why the Layoffs Happened: Closing the Skills Gap CEO Julie Sweet has been clear: these changes are about skills. Accenture is…

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Customer Service Shakeup: Lessons from AI Rollouts
ByJorge Pereira 2025-03-252025-09-30

A dramatic shift is reshaping customer service in boardrooms around the world. AI agents are rapidly taking over from human representatives, promising lower costs, faster response times, and 24/7 availability. However, the reality behind the headlines is much more complicated, and some high-profile companies are already dealing with unexpected consequences. Companies Leading the AI Charge…

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Should You Pursue a Career in Software Development in 2025? An Honest Look
ByJorge Pereira 2025-03-052025-10-02

A familiar question echoing around dinner tables, group chats, and family gatherings—especially from the younger generation these days: “Should I go into software development?” It’s a fair question, and it deserves an honest answer, not a sugar-coated one. Here’s what my general answer is: Yes, software development can still be a rewarding career, but it’s…

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Good AI Session: The Future of Work
ByJorge Pereira 2024-04-232025-09-30

Good SxSW-2024 session that describes AI as a tool that changes the way we work… Session title: Billion Dollar Teams: The Future of an AI Powered Workforce | SXSW 2024 The session discusses the impact of AI on the future of work and how it is shaping the way we approach tasks and projects. The speaker, emphasizes…

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THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO
ByJorge Pereira 2023-10-172024-10-25

A quick post as this was just published overnight from Marc Andreessen – We will be talking about this for the next few weeks / months / years… I love this quote from the document: We believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone – we are literally making sand think. If you…

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AI to Disrupt Education
ByJorge Pereira 2023-05-112025-09-30

AI: The possibilities are limitless. One of the best examples of how we need to rethink things is provided by Kahn Academy and the work they are doing to reimagine education. The concept of having a high-quality personalized education program with a lifetime personal tutor / coach and assistant to anyone with a phone is…

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Chat GPT – Digital Art conversation
ByJorge Pereira 2023-01-012024-10-25

This article is part of the Digital Art Series This is the transcript of a conversation I had (yes conversation) with Chat GPT about digital art. Keep in mind that ChatGPT from OpenAI is the first limited release of this “engine/platform” I must say that it was so much better experience than just using Google Search….

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Business Dealing The Great Resignation
ByJorge Pereira 2022-10-122022-10-07

There used to be 6 people working daily here. Now they can cover it with just 2 Businesses need to adapt to changing and challenging times. A picture is worth… Solving #thegreatresignation #NewNormal #futureofwork #change

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New PBS Series: The Future of Work
ByJorge Pereira 2021-09-162022-10-03

The New PBS series: The Future of Work is very good and very current. We have been talking about these trends for a while in my articles series Work Beyond tomorrow , but the pandemic has fast / hyper forward so much…. Many fundamental changes happening “live” right now. Good post-pandemic / current series from…

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A Second Renaissance Ahead
ByJorge Pereira 2021-04-112022-10-03

I wrote a bit about this already in my previous posts What are NFTs and My First NFTs Up until now, physical goods (paintings, sculptures, drawings, music sheet, autographs) were the only things that can be traded, auctioned sold and bought. You would put it the purchased item on your wall, bank safe, on a…

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The Age of AI
ByJorge Pereira 2019-12-162024-10-25

A great brand new (November 2019) report from Frontline on how Artificial Intelligence is changing our lives – (no longer the future, it is affecting us all now!) Not only explores what will the future looks like, but also what is happening today in China, USA and other places around the world. I have written…

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JORGEP021: Work Beyond Tomorrow

In this episode I talk about what amazing technological times we live in and how mind-blowing the social implications and changes just around the corner are. I also mentioned a couple of create resources to research more about it.

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IT Jobs Likely To Be Replaced By Artificial Intelligence
ByJorge Pereira 2017-07-132022-09-26

Just came across this article in Information Week by Cynthia Harvey: 10 IT Jobs That Will Be Done by AI. I have never liked articles set as slideshows where you have to click to get the next page / slide. It is an interesting list with good information, so I thought I would summarize it….

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Fourth Industrial Revolution – Davos 2017
ByJorge Pereira 2017-06-292022-09-26

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and the implications on society, economy and culture are tremendous… For some of us in the field, we notice the rate of the change. The speed of the technological revolution is incredible. Every leader, no matter how small or large, high or low your position…

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Four Questions for the Future
ByJorge Pereira 2017-04-302017-06-26

Disclaimer: I work for Dell EMC – #Iwork4Dell This presentation by Kevin Kelly on Dell EMC World is excellent – Glad they brought him in. Lots of great food for thinking. He covered 4 of the 12 questions he asks in his book: “The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.”…

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What will future jobs look like? TED Talk 2013
ByJorge Pereira 2017-04-232022-09-26

Good stuff!- TED talk from 2013 – still very current today. Published on Jun 20, 2013 Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs — or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate…

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Book Recommendation: Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
ByJorge Pereira 2017-04-202022-09-26

Good book.! – “The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.” Thank you Wikipedia for summarizing the 12 trends that will forever change the ways in which we work, learn and communicate: Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using…

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21st Century Renaissance Time
ByJorge Pereira 2017-04-152024-10-25

For a while now I have been following the major accomplishments and progress in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and general computing power. From a pure technology point of view, we live in absolutely amazing times, but on the other side, the social implications and changes just around the corner are truly mind-blowing….

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US Treasury Secretary Unreal
ByJorge Pereira 2017-04-102024-10-25

This past week I ran across an article in the news that made my mind melt (I thought it was a April fool’s joke – but it was not!!) — my tweet follows: I have always been in the business of implementing technology to help automate / improve processes within businesses, and have written a number…

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